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move old XP PC on Mac using bootcamp and Acronis

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I have a new imac with Snow Leopard and have just created a windows partition as big as the HD of my old PC.
I have installed ATI 2010 Home on my old computer, so it is ready to backup the image.

What are the steps to move the OS and all apps from the Old PC to the imac bootcamp partition?

Thx

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You have to understand that a diff machine is going to require diff hardware drivers. so you can't just move from one machine to another. You have to set uyp the existing one for some standard drivers and then install the desired drivers on the restored machine. Or use the universal restore feature avaialble in the more expensive versions of ATI.

IF you were going form a PC to a PC, you could use sysprep to strip out the machine specific stuff before backing up.

Understood!

So I guess the right way of doing it is: installing XP on the iMac, and then to port all installed applications on it

- What should I do on Acronis to do it?
- Are applications normally linked to the version of Xp installed. I assume that apps installed on a different XP will work on the new one.

If going to a diff machine, that's often the easiet way to go. Install applications anew, especially if going to diff hardware (from PC to MAC). Then the XP registry will have the proper entries and the correct dirvers will be installed. If an app works under XP, it gnerally will work on any machine with XP (in cases there's an install probl, you might have to cntact the program maker for help).

You could then restore the nonprog files (data files) to diff locations or mount the backup and copy out the data files/directories selectively.

IF you were going to the same machine (say you had to replace the system drive, then you could jsut backup the entire disk/partition and restore to the new drive. But once you're going to diff hardware, it gets a lot more complicated.

Scott,

this is very helpful.

Unfortunately I do not have installations disks for all the applications on my old machine. And in same cases, I need to reconfigure the application if reinstalled from scratch, which I'd rather avoid.

Is there a way to move an installed application (i.e. Outlook) from one machine to another running XP? This would need files and registry entries I suppose, probably far fetched, but is it feasible/worth a try with some tool?

thx

Scott,

this is very helpful.

Unfortunately I do not have installations disks for all the applications on my old machine. And in same cases, I need to reconfigure the application if reinstalled from scratch, which I'd rather avoid.

Is there a way to move an installed application (i.e. Outlook) from one machine to another running XP? This would need files and registry entries I suppose, probably far fetched, but is it feasible/worth a try with some tool?

thx

As I said above. Otherwise, you're wading through dark waters.

There have been some applications that say they can move installed Windows apps but I've never investigated them. Acronis certainly doesn't do this at the application level.

You might want to read this link, particularly the last post by Acronis:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/6342